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International

The Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences has extensive international links in both teaching and research, contributing to King's status as a world-class university.

Almost a third of the School's students come from overseas and our staff are also drawn from around the world.

This diversity contributes to our partnerships with international institutions, facilitating knowledge transfer and encouraging progressive research, with active collaborations and exchanges in all the Faculty's departments.

Worldwide links and collaborations

In addtion to King's strategic university partners, the research groups in Natural & Mathematical Sciences have many EU wide research projects and international collaborations, for details please see their pages.

We have mutual co-operation agreements with Tohoku University Graduate School of Science Japan in Telecommuncations, the National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) Russia in Physics and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy and a study agreement with Wuhan University School of Physics & Technology China in Physics.

Study Abroad

The King's College London Study Abroad Programme allows students who are currently studying for their degree at an overseas institution to spend either a semester or a full year at King's.  It is is a fully integrated programme so students will attend the same classes and live in the same accomodation as any other King's student.  With campuses right in the heart of London and with over 800 courses to choose from, including options in all levels of Mathematics, Informatics, Physics and Chemistry, students have the opportunity to gain new insights into their field of study by immersing themselves in an international community and a new academic context.

King's students at both undergraduate and postgraduate research level have the opportunity to study abroad with our international partners, on year abroad programmes or on an exchange for a semester or a year.

Undergraduate programmes with a year abroad include Physics and Philosophy with a year abroad and Computer Science with Management and a year abroad. For more information see the undergraduate prospectus. 

International Science Foundation Programme

The International Science Foundation Programme (ISFP) is a full-time, one year programme for international students who have completed twelve years of schooling with excellent grades.  It is delivered jointly by King's English Language Centre, the Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences and King’s Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine.  The course provides a pathway into undergraduate degrees at King’s and other top UK universities for study in science-based subjects.  It combines study in your chosen academic area with academic and Scientific English.

Joint PhDs

Research students can undertake a joint PhD with the University of Hong Kong or Humboldt University, Berlin, or take part in an exchange under local exchange agreements in some departments. 

university of cornell

Summary

Cornell University is a private institution that was founded in 1865. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 14,453, its setting is rural, and the campus size is 745 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Cornell University's ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 15. Its tuition and fees are $49,116 (2015-16).

Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, has more than 1,000 student organizations on campus, which range from the Big Red Marching Band to the International Affairs Society. First-year students live together on north campus, and the university has housing options for upperclassmen and graduate students, though many choose to live off campus. Cornell has a thriving Greek life, with more than 60 fraternity and sorority chapters. Cornell has more than 30 NCAA Division I varsity teams that compete in the Ivy League. The Cornell Big Red are perhaps best known for their successful men's lacrosse team, which won nine consecutive Ivy League titles from 2003 to 2011. Cornell also has a strong hockey program.

Each of Cornell's 14 colleges and schools admits its own students and provides its own faculty, even though every graduate receives a degree from Cornell University. Cornell's two largest undergraduate colleges are the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Its graduate schools include the highly ranked S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, College of Engineering, Law School and Weill Cornell Medical College. Cornell is also well known for its top-rankedCollege of Veterinary Medicine and the highly esteemed School of Hotel Administration. One of Cornell's oldest traditions is Dragon Day, during which a dragon built by first-year architecture students is paraded through campus. Notable alumni include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, author E.B. White and Bill Nye, the "Science Guy."

Academic Life

The student-faculty ratio at Cornell University is 9:1, and the school has 55.3 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Cornell University include: Engineering; Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; and Social Sciences. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 96.8 percent.

Class sizes

Student Life Student Life Classes with fewer than20 students (55.3%)20-49 (26.7%)50 or more (18.1%)18.1%26.7%55.3%

Student Life

Cornell University has a total undergraduate enrollment of 14,453, with a gender distribution of 49 percent male students and 51 percent female students. At this school, 55 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 45 percent of students live off campus. Cornell University is part of the NCAA I athletic conference.

Campus Services

Cornell University offers a number of student services including nonremedial tutoring, women's center, placement service, day care, health service, and health insurance. Cornell University also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at Cornell University.

yale university

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in Saybrook Colony as the Collegiate School, the University is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. In 1718, the school was renamed Yale College in recognition of a gift from Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company and in 1731 received a further gift of land and slaves from Bishop Berkeley. Established to trainCongregationalist ministers in theology and sacred languages, by 1777 the school's curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences and in the 19th century gradually incorporated graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Ph.D. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887.

Yale is organized into twelve constituent schools: the original undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and ten professional schools. While the university is governed by the Yale Corporation, each school'sfaculty oversees its curriculum and degree programs. In addition to a central campus in downtown New Haven, the University owns athletic facilities in western New Haven, including the Yale Bowl, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut, and forest and nature preserves throughout New England. The university's assets include an endowment valued at $25.6 billion as of September 2015, the second largest of any educational institution in the world.

Yale College undergraduates follow a liberal arts curriculum with departmental majors and are organized into a system of residential colleges. Almost all faculty teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually. The Yale University Library, serving all twelve schools, holds more than 15 million volumes and is the third-largest academic library in the United States. Outside of academic studies, students compete intercollegiately as the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I Ivy League.

Yale has graduated many notable alumni, including five U.S. Presidents, 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 13 living billionaires, and many foreign heads of state. In addition, Yale has graduated hundreds of members of Congress and many high-level U.S. diplomats, including former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of State John Kerry. Fifty-two Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the University as students, faculty, or staff, and 230 Rhodes Scholars graduated from the University.

Admissions

Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library, as seen from Maya Lin's sculpture,Women's Table. The sculpture records the number of women enrolled at Yale over its history; female undergraduates were not admitted until 1969.

Undergraduate admission to Yale College is considered "most selective" by U.S. News. In 2014, Yale accepted 1,935 students to the Class of 2018 out of 30,932 applicants, for an acceptance rate of 6.3%.^[109][110] 98% of students graduate within six years.

Through its program of need-based financial aid, Yale commits to meet the full demonstrated financial need of all applicants. Most financial aid is in the form of grants and scholarships that do not need to be paid back to the university, and the average need-based aid grant for the Class of 2017 was $46,395.^[112] 15% of Yale College students are expected to have no parental contribution, and about 50% receive some form of financial aid.^{[111][113][114]} About 16% of the Class of 2013 had some form of student loan debt at graduation, with an average debt of $13,000 among borrowers.^[111]

Half of all Yale undergraduates are women, more than 39% are ethnic minority U.S. citizens (19% are underrepresented minorities), and 10.5% are international students.^[112] Fifty-five percent attended public schools and 45% attended private, religious, or international schools, and 97% of students were in the top 10% of their high school class.^[111] Every year, Yale College also admits a small group of non-traditional students through the Eli Whitney Students Program

university college london

University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England and a constituent college of thefederal University of London. Established in 1826 as London University by founders inspired by the radical ideas ofJeremy Bentham, UCL was the first university institution established in London and the earliest in England to be entirely secular, to admit students regardless of their religion and to admit women on equal terms with men.^[5] UCL became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London in 1836 and has grown through mergers, including with the Institute of Neurology (in 1997), the Royal Free Hospital Medical School (in 1998), the Eastman Dental Institute (in 1999), the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (in 1999), the School of Pharmacy (in 2012) and the Institute of Education (in 2014). UCL is the largest higher education institution in London and the largest postgraduate institution in the UK by enrollment^[6] and is regarded as one of the leading multidisciplinary research universities in the world

1826 to 1836 (London University)

The London University as drawn byThomas Hosmer Shepherd and published in 1827–1828 (now the UCL Main Building)

UCL was founded on 11 February 1826 under the name London University as a secular alternative to the religious universities of Oxford and Cambridge. London University's first Warden was leonard, who was the first scientist to head a British university.

In June 2011, the mining company BHP Billiton agreed to donate A$10 million to UCL to fund the establishment of two energy institutes – the Energy Policy Institute, based in Adelaide, and the Institute for Sustainable Resources, based in London.^[73] In November 2011 UCL announced plans for a £500 million investment in its main Bloomsbury campus over 10 years, and the establishment of a new 23-acre campus next to the Olympic Park in Stratford in the East End of London.^[74] It revised its plans of expansion in East London and in December 2014 announced to build a campus UCL East covering 11 acres and provide up to 125,000m² of space on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.^[75] UCL East will be a part of the planned Olympicopolis that plans to transform the Olympic Park into a cultural and innovation hub where UCL will open its first school of design, a centre of experimental engineering and a museum of the future, along with a living space for students.^[76]

The School of Pharmacy, University of London merged with UCL on 1 January 2012, becoming the UCL School of Pharmacy within the Faculty of Life Sciences.^[77][78] In May 2012, UCL, Imperial College London and the semiconductor company Intel announced the establishment of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities, a London-based institute for research into the future of cities.^[79][80]

university of leeds

The University of Leeds is a redbrick university located in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally named the Yorkshire College of Science and later simply the Yorkshire College, it incorporated the Leeds School of Medicine and became part of the federal Victoria University alongside Owens College (which eventually became the University of Manchester) and University College Liverpool (which became the University of Liverpool).^[5] In 1904, a royal charter, created in 1903, was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII.^[6]

The university has around 33,500 students,^[3] the eighth-highest number of any university in the UK.^[7] From 2006 to present, the university has consistently been ranked second in the United Kingdom for the number of applications received, second only to the University of Manchester.^[8] Leeds had a total income of £547.3 million in 2010/11, of which £124 million was from research grants and contracts.^[9] The university has financial endowments of £49.3 million (2009–10), ranking outside the top ten British universities by financial endowment.

The university is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, the N8 Group for research collaboration,^[10] the Worldwide Universities Network, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, the White Rose University Consortium, the Santander Network and CDIO and is also affiliated to the Association of MBAs, EQUIS and Universities UK.

Leeds is ranked nationally between 14th (Times Higher Education) and 23th (The Guardian). Internationally, the university is ranked as the 32nd best in Europe and globally ranked 87th in the 2015 QS World University Rankings^[11]and 101–150 (2015 ARWU). Leeds was ranked 8th in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise,^[12] the best result in the Yorkshire and the Humber region^[12] and in 2010, Leeds was ranked as the 9th most targeted British university by graduate employers.^[13]

Notable alumni include former Secretary of State Jack Straw, former co-chairman of the Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi, American actor Chris Pine, Piers Sellers (NASA astronaut) and five Nobel laureates

History

Prior to formation

An early view of the Great Hall, next to the Clothworkers' Court

The university's history is linked to the development of Leeds as an international centre for the textile industry and clothing manufacture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era. The university's roots can be traced back to the formation of schools of medicine in English cities to serve the general public.

Prior to 1900, only five universities had been established in England and one in Wales. These consisted of the University of Oxford (founded between 1096–1201), University of Cambridge (founded c. 1201), University of London (founded in 1836),Durham University (founded in 1832), and the federal Victoria University (founded in 1880); the University of Wales was founded in 1893.

The Victoria University was established in Manchester in 1880 as a federal university in the North of England, instead of the government elevating Owens College to a university and grant it a royal charter. Owens College was the sole college of Victoria University from 1880 to 1884; in 1887 Yorkshire College was the third to join the university.^[5]